Quotes About Reflection

Ever'body's askin' that. 'What we comin' to?' Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

I can tell all I want about them now because they are all dead and they won't resent the truth about themselves.

Kaip greitai nakt? lekia mintys po kojom šerkšnui girgždant.

Take it's something kind of long—you start at the beginning and remember everything you can, right to the end. Every time it comes back you do that, from the first right through the finish. Pretty soon it'll get tired and pieces of it will go, and before long the whole thing will go." I tried it and it worked. I don't know whether the headshrinkers know this but they should.

A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

?domu, kiek yra žmoni?, kuri? aš nesu mat?s, nors ži?riu ? juos vis? gyvenim?.

Ever see a cock pheasant, stiff and beautiful, ever' feather drawed an' painted an' even his eyes drawed in pretty? An' bang! You pick him up - bloody an' twisted, an' you spoiled somepin better'n you; an' eatin' him don't ever make it up to you, 'cause you spoiled somepin in yaself, an' you can't never fix it up.

Is thinking" focused not on ends but on the process of life

Same thing, I guess," said Mack. "You just can't trust a married guy. No matter how much he hates his old lady why he'll go back to her. Get to thinkin' and broodin' and back he'll go. You can't trust him no more. Take Gay," said Mack. "His old lady hits him. But I bet you when Gay's away from her three days, he gets it figured out that it's his fault and he goes back to make it up to her.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Lee watched him for a while before he went back to his kitchen. He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

Midesinin hemen üstünde bir aÄŸr? vard?, tekinsiz bir düÅŸünceyi and?ran bir endiÅŸe. Weltschmerz (Welshrats derdik eskiden), yani dünyan?n kederiydi: Bir gaz gibi yükselerek ruha nüfuz eder, umutsuzluk yayar, öyle ki, neden kaynakland???n? arar, bulamaz insan.

I take my two pipes in the afternoon, no more and no less, like the elders. And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star.

Hani bazen olur ya, o an uzad?, her andan çok daha uzun bir an oldu. Ses kesildi, hareket durdu... uzun süre öylece havada as?l? kalakald? her ÅŸey.

Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow.

It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.

Lo valioso siempre está oculto en la mente solitaria de un hombre

Mack's eyes looked off into space and his lips were parted. He could see it all. "Hughie," he said, "I think you got something there. I never would of thought you could do it, but by God you really rang a duck that time.

If only I wouldn't take this book so seriously. It is just a book after all, and a book is very dead in a very short time. And I'll be dead in a very short time too. So the hell with it. Let's slow down, not in pace or wordage but in nerves.

Hay?r, ölmekte olan kiÅŸiyi sevebilir, nefret edebilir, arkas?ndan aÄŸlayabilir, özleyebilirsiniz; ama öldüÄŸü zaman o art?k karma??k ve resmi bir sosyal kutlaman?n ana malzemesi, baÅŸl?ca süs olup ç?kar.

Samuel's funeral and the talk with Kate should have made Adam sad and bitter, but they did not.

It's always hard to start to concentrate. The mind darts like a chicken, trying to escape thinking even though thinking is the most rewarding function of man.